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Fires & bushfires, 1908

339 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 17

Forest Fires in California. Yosemite Valley Burning. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 August 1908 · page 2

Great [?] fire are sweeping along the famous Yosemite Valley, on the west slope of the Sierra Novada, Califoraia. The [?] redwood trees, which are a…

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Stamboul on Fire. Flames Rapidly Spreading. 5000 Buildings Destroyed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 2

A disastrous fire is raging in the Stamboul (Turkish) quarter of Constantinople. Reports sent from Constantinople on Monday night stated that the fire had not…

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Sydney a Blaze of Light. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 31

The illuminations in honour of the American Fleet were witnessed to their fullest extent last evening, and parts of Sydney looked, indeed, like scenes from an…

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Great City on Fire. Constantinople Burning. 1500 Buildings Destroyed. London, August 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 43

A great fire is raging in Constantinople, the capital of Turkey. It broke out in the Stamboul quarter of the city, and was still unextinguished when the latest messages…

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Fire at Adelaide Several Persons Inouren. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 2

A di[?]troas [?] here early this morning, when the wicker metery of weiss and varcee, la [?] was led from the explosion of a varaish…

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Cablegrams. Fire in Stamboul. Started by Reactionary Incendlaries. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 5

An impression is paining ground throughout Turkey than the hugein which for days past has bern dev[?]ing Stambond, the Turki[?] qumter of Con[?]…

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Cablegrams. Three Colliery Disasters. Mink on Fire at Burnley. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 2

A fire brele out at the Hapten Colliery on Baraley. in [?] on Thursday. A, it destenyed the limbering of one of the shafis and the pit-head gear,…

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Electricity in War. New Electric Gun: Cab Fire Projectiles From England to Germany

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 September 1908 · page 3

The War Department of every native worthy of the name is just now [?] with the [?] of having to remodel it navy…

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Destruction by Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 46

Monzie Castle, near Crieff, Perthshire, was completely gutted by fire the other afternoon. The outbreak was discovered at one o'clock, and before the Crieff Fire Brigade arrived the…

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A Prairie Fire. a Magnificent Spectacle and Terrible Experience

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The possibility of a prairie fire is not a life in which life in modern Canada appeals to the ordinary reader A young settler in the Far West…

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A Prairie Fire. a Magnificent Spectacle and Terrible Expierience

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 6

The possibility of a prairie fire is not a life in which life in modern Canada appeals to the ordinary reader A young settler in the Far West…

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Wine on Fire. Floods of Blazing Sherry. London, August 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 42

A fire which broke out in Gonzalez Byass's sherry bodegas, in Jerez de da Frontera, near Cadiz, in Andalusia, spread to the wine stores, and did enormous…

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Fire in a Shaft. Eighty Miners Escape. London, August 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 42

The list of coal-mine disasters of the past few days has been added to by one in Lanarkshire, in Scotland. At one time it seemed probable that a serious loss of life…

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Coal-mine Disasters. Workings on Fire. Thirty Men Suffocated. London, August 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 42

A lire has broken out in the underground workings of the Haileyville coal mine, in Oklahoma State, United States. It is believed that 30 miners who were…

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Claim for Damages. Sequel to a Fire

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 2

A fire which occurred in Cressy-street on June 19 was responsible for a claim for damages which was dealt with by Mr A. Ormonde Butler, P.M., in the…

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Fire at Stamboul. the King Subscribes to the Relief Fund. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 2

King Edward has subscribed the sum of £500 towards the relief fund being raised for the benefit of the sufferers by the wide spread and disastrous fires which have…

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American Forest Fires

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 September 1908 · page 2

Fires are raging in the forests of Minnesota and Winsconsin. The town of Chisholm was destroyed, and Deluth is threatened. The damage is…

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Forest Fires in America. Important City in Banger. a Town Destroyed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 September 1908 · page 8

The summer of 1008 has been marked throughout the forest regions of North American by the occurrence of great conflagrations. Still another very serious…

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Mammoth Trees. Destroyed by Fire. London, September 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 42

Some days ago forest fires were raging in the Yosemite Valley, and threatening the famous big trees that are one of the attractions of the region. The danger…

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